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artist: Sotherion
title: Vermine
year: 2024
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: W.T.C.PRODUCTIONS
language: English
rel. date: 2024-05-09
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:43:07
size: 98.8 MiB / 10 tracks
rip date: 2026-07-07
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ztth0ghokgx8b
tracklist:
01. Shemyaza 0:39
02. La Mort Pour Compagnon 3:52
03. The Fallen 3:51
04. Word Made Death 3:58
05. Flame of Deliverance 4:34
06. Famished King 4:06
07. Blood Prophet 4:37
08. Le Havre Meurtri 5:10
09. Schwarmgeist 5:23
10. Shrine of the Chosen 6:57
release notes:
Sotherion's crushing debut album.
Spawned by the mind of infamous composer BST (Aosoth, The Order of
Apollyon) in total isolation, in the midst of the first lockdown of 2020,
SOTHERION is a one-man project paying homage to the late '80s and early
'90s second wave of black metal. Inspired by disgust for the modern world
and its deification of mediocrity and glorification of rats, and
motivated by a search for old ways of recording razor-sharp guitars and
low-pulsing kick drums, the debut demo Schwarmgeist came to be in a
heartbeat, acting as a beacon for what was next to come.
A punishing and pestilent experience, Vermine encompasses 10 tracks
across 44 minutes. "The creative process leading to this album was
centered around a type of sound, first and foremost," BST reveals. "Every
guitar riff is meant to emphasize this raw style of production, widely
reminiscent of the early '90s - minimalistic music to leave enough room
for the gurgling harmonics of the saturated strings to develop." Indeed,
every blistering tone and texture here feels like razor-wire dragged
across the flesh (and FAST), but with disharmony flowing just as fast and
freely, the sum effect is one of disorientation and delirium giving way
to inevitable implosion. Put another way, you don't just try to "listen"
to Vermine; rather, you merely try to survive. "Suffocating" is another
way to put it...or an air-raid siren made manifest.
Not surprisingly, content matches form for SOTHERION. As BST explains
further, "Lyrically, the various themes revolve around a darkened view of
reality, the ever-decaying modern world, the instinct to welcome the
death of all as the ultimate goal of the human experiment - not devoid of
a certain very cynical and morbid form of humor, mocking everything
sacred and everything beautiful." That mockery just might extend to the
listener himself, depending on one's spiritual coordinates coming into
Vermine.
Schwarmgeist was released without warning, preparing the masses for the
inevitable infection of Vermine - but perhaps that wasn't enough
preparation for the full fathom of SOTHERION. Hereby shall French black
metal be renewed by consecrating its blood pact with the past. This is no
more and no less than what the modern world deserves!